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232 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.The teachers consist of five foreigners and elevenChinese.In connection with the David Gregg Hospital forWomen, nurses are being trained. Eleven are nowstudying. Four have graduated. All are in the constant demand and give satisfaction to both foreignersand Chinese. All are Christians.MARY H. FULTON, M.D.Medical Research Work.In former years definite systematic research in medicine was undertaken practically by none among missionary physicians, and this in the main for two reasonsthe first that men as a rule were put singlehanded incharge of work too heavy for one to handle alone, andbeyond rapid routine work, often necessarily slip-shodand unsatisfactory, nothing could be attempted the;second reason was that laboratories properly equippedfor such work were very few. A number of individuals,however, working more or less alone, have in the pastdone some excellent work.At the triennial conference of the China MedicalMissionary Association, held in 1907, the first movetoward a systematic work of medical research was madeby the formation of a research committee, consistingof seven or eight members, wrhose locations were scattered over the Empire, from Korea to Hongkong, andas far inland as Hunan. It was decided that the onlywork undertaken by the committee for the triennium1907-1910 should consist of an intensive study ofintestinal parasites. The working out of the geographical distribution and an approximate idea of the proportion of population affected by the various injurioushelminths was felt to be exceedingly important, not onlyfor purposes of more accurate diagnosis and helpful treatment, but as well from an economic standpoint, and it was